Summary Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mr. Mary Rowlandson
Ronald Wyscaver
Shanda Easterday
LITR220
July 18, 2015
Short Answer Essay Assignment
1. Based on the readings from weeks one and two, discuss the images of America the European writers constructed to promote colonization and settlement. What kinds of unique natural resources and environmental factors did they extol in their accounts of the New World? Relate these images to natural resources and environmental factors today.
From the beginning with the Europeans arriving to the New World sent home writings with descriptions of what they saw and encountered while exploring the New World. From week one readings I found that the explorers wrote about the wilderness and their first sightings and meetings of the natives. Explorer Samuel de Champlain while exploring wrote Cap Blanc “Cap Blanc is a point of sand, which bends around towards the south some six leagues. This coast is rather high, and consists of sand, which is very conspicuous as one comes from the sea. …show more content…
Mary Rowlandson. For the reason that her story shows how just how dangerous it was to live in the New World during 1675, with new settlements and raids from the natives. The first part of her writings is about the raid from the natives on Lancaster and how they swarmed the settlement and set blaze houses and slaughter people. From Mary’s writings “Another their was who running along was shot and wounded, and fell down; he begged of them his life, promising them Money (as they told me) but they would not hearken to him but knockt him in head, and stript him naked, and split open his Bowels.”(Rowlandson, 73) Shows what took place during the raid and how who every survived was lucky. Even Mary wrote about how she would rather die than be taken captive, but recanted what she said once she was face with certain death and realize how precious life is. (Rownlandson,
Shanda Easterday
LITR220
July 18, 2015
Short Answer Essay Assignment
1. Based on the readings from weeks one and two, discuss the images of America the European writers constructed to promote colonization and settlement. What kinds of unique natural resources and environmental factors did they extol in their accounts of the New World? Relate these images to natural resources and environmental factors today.
From the beginning with the Europeans arriving to the New World sent home writings with descriptions of what they saw and encountered while exploring the New World. From week one readings I found that the explorers wrote about the wilderness and their first sightings and meetings of the natives. Explorer Samuel de Champlain while exploring wrote Cap Blanc “Cap Blanc is a point of sand, which bends around towards the south some six leagues. This coast is rather high, and consists of sand, which is very conspicuous as one comes from the sea. …show more content…
Mary Rowlandson. For the reason that her story shows how just how dangerous it was to live in the New World during 1675, with new settlements and raids from the natives. The first part of her writings is about the raid from the natives on Lancaster and how they swarmed the settlement and set blaze houses and slaughter people. From Mary’s writings “Another their was who running along was shot and wounded, and fell down; he begged of them his life, promising them Money (as they told me) but they would not hearken to him but knockt him in head, and stript him naked, and split open his Bowels.”(Rowlandson, 73) Shows what took place during the raid and how who every survived was lucky. Even Mary wrote about how she would rather die than be taken captive, but recanted what she said once she was face with certain death and realize how precious life is. (Rownlandson,